NY Gov. Cuomo Signs “Unconstitutional, Mccarthyite” Pro-Israel Exec. Order Punishing BDS Boycott...

[Purveyor]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a pro-Israel executive order on Sunday that will punish people and groups who support a boycott of Israel on behalf of Palestinian human rights.

Legal experts have described this long pending anti-boycott policy as “21st-century McCarthyism,” warning it would effectively create a discriminatory “blacklist” of Palestinian human rights advocates who endorse boycotts like those organized in order to combat U.S.-backed apartheid in South Africa.

Prominent legal organizations including the Center for Constitutional Rights, National Lawyers Guild, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Palestine Legal say these politically motivated anti-boycott policies constitute an unconstitutional attack on the freedom of speech.

The New York legislature has unsuccessfully tried to push through anti-boycott legislation for months, amid intense pressure by pro-Israel lobby groups. Now it appears that Gov. Cuomo has decided to instead circumvent the legal process and implement the policy on his own.

“I am signing an Executive Order that says very clearly we are against the BDS movement,” Cuomo tweeted on Sunday.

“If you boycott Israel, New York will boycott you,” he added.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/06/05/ny_gov_cuomo_signing_unconstitutional_mccarthyite_pro_israel_exec_order_punishing_bds_boycott_movement/

[Else You Are Mad]

1. Yep.

One of the largest and most powerful voting blocs in NY is the ultra rthodox jewish community. He is just pandering to that group for the money and votes.

[Feeling the Bern]

5. And the non orthodox JEws like me tend to not vote single issue like this

[2naSalit]

2. Hmmm

it will be interesting to see how that all works out.

[Chan790]

3. Every time I think Andy Cuomo has reached the point...

where Mario looks down on him, rolls his eyes, denounces him and comes back just to campaign against him...I come away disappointed.

How did one of America's great Democrats raise one of America's worst Democrats?

[2naSalit]

4. Excellent question

which I ask myself on occasion about this guy. I lost any sense that he is anything but something akin to A Drumpf enabler quite a while ago, like at least 18 months ago. He's is a living example of a DINO and I wish he'd get kicked out of the D gene pool.